Llewellyn has sent the Twitterati - of which he is an influential member - into an imbroglio of postings (sorry, we have no idea what the collective noun for postings is, Ed) after announcing his displeasure with Auntie on the social networking site.
 
The problem seems to originate courtesy of the Manchester-based team behind North West Tonight, who apparently used an excerpt from the below 'dad dancing' video on their show.
 
Llewellyn is unhappy as he wasn't asked, or informed, about the use of the clip and has now blogged about this on his personal website.
 
He has even taken the step of writing an open letter to the BBC, published in full below, in which he comments on the irony of his creative being used in an unauthorised fashion by a corporation that itself works to quickly remove unauthorised BBC content from YouTube.
 
How-Do was awaiting a response from the BBC at the time of publishing.

Llewellyn's letter to the BBC:

Dear BBC

I was intrigued to suddenly hear of the use of a video I created titled ‘Dad Dancing’ appearing on the North West Tonight news program this evening. When I watched the show I was partly flattered, it’s always nice to be noticed.

As someone who has worked for the BBC for many years, I can’t think that it would be that hard to find me. If it is BBC policy to take snippets of peoples videos from YouTube with minimum attribution then I’m sure you will have no qualms when I use similarly notated clips from the BBC on my own internet series ‘carpool’ which is available to download on iTunes or as a stream on www.llewtube.com.

Obviously I jest, I wouldn’t dream of doing such a thing.

Interestingly this has started a little storm of comments on Twitter which is how I found out about it’s use on the aforementioned news program. This seems particularly ironic when the users of YouTube have often been accused of ’stealing material’ from the BBC who are quick to remove any unauthorized use of their material from YouTube.

I will of course be equally intrigued to hear your response, which I await with patience.

yours etc

Robert Llewellyn

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Comments (4)

2  By George Dearsley , on 10-06-2009 18:39 I wondered about Mr Llewellyn's use of the Oasis soundtrack. Did he buy a licence to use that music for his You Tube backing track? I think the BBC were mean spirited (or maybe just unprofessional, unthinking) in not giving him a credit. But sadly we live in a magpie world nowadays. Anyway, the fact is he's now had great exposure thanks to How Do and a minor conflict. Report